Institute Calendar
May 2026
Thursday, May 21st, 2026
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, May 22nd, 2026
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Integrated Transceivers from Microwave to Optical: Signals, Systems and Silicon for Sensing and Communications
Samir Nooshabadi,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
10:30am
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11:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Artificial Intelligence Methods for Enzyme Engineering
Jason Yang,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Arnold Lab),
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Strings Attached: the Confining Flux Tube as a Conformal Defect
Barak Gabai,
EPFL,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Non-perturbatively slow spread of quantum correlations in non-resonant systems
Benjamin McDonough,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Optimizing Treslin-MTBP for cryo-EM analysis
Cai Tong Ng,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Combinatorial Signal Integration in the Dopamine Receptor System
Jan Gregrowicz,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Magnetic Relaxation and the Landscape of Stable Magnetic Equilibria in Stellar Interiors
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Series Invariants for Plumbed 3-Manifolds
Nicola Tarasca,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics,
Virginia Commonwealth University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Swing Surfaces in AdS/CFT
Sabrina Pasterski,
Perimeter Institute,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Susan and James Wu Aerospace Colloquium
The Kinematics of Life The Evolving Role of Robot Kinematics in Bio-Nanotechnology
Kazem Kazerounian,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering Department,
University of Conneticut,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Molecular Quantum Bits as Ion Detectors
Fernando Guerrero,
Graduate Student (Agapie Group),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
From Rocky Planets to Ice Giants: Experimental Insights into C–H–O Chemistry in Planetary Interiors
Bin Chen,
Researcher in Mineral Physics and Experimental Petrology,
Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology,
University of Hawaii at Manoa,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, May 25th, 2026
All Day
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2026
10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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NB/CNS Seminar - Bing Brunton
Embodied intelligence: From connectomes to body models
Bing Brunton,
Professor & Richard and Joan Komen University Chair,
University of Washington, Seattle,
12:15pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Banks-McKelvey Memorial Lecture
Credibility in an Era of Chaos: Rebuilding Trust Between Universities and Society
Arthur Lupia,
Vice President for Research and Innovation, Gerald R. Ford Distinguished University Professor,
Department of Political Science,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Book Reading and Discussion with Vinita Gupta
Vinita Gupta,
Silicon Valley Entrepreneur. First Indian-American woman to take her company public. Thrice National Champion of bridge.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Revisiting Woodward–Hoffmann Allowed and Forbidden Electrocyclic Reactions
Kendall N. Houk,
Distinguished Research Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Ruizhe Wang,
Graduate Student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Ting-Juan Liao,
Graduate Student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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MedE Distinquished Seminar Series, Xiaodong Chen
Electrochemomics profiling metabolic dynamics in biofluids
Xiaodong Chen,
Distinguished Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, with joint and courtesy appointments in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Chemistry, and Medicine,
Nanyang Technological University (NTU),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wolff Memorial Lectures 1/3
The diagonal Ramsey numbers: New Upper bounds
Julian Sahasrabudhe,
Professor,
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS),
University of Cambridge,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2026
10:30am
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11:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Reductive C-C Bond Construction Strategies by Samarium and Nickel Catalysis
Chungkeun Shin,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Reisman Group),
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar- François Leo
Temporal patterns and solitons in optical parametric oscillators
François Leo,
Research Associate,
University of Brussels.,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Baryon Junctions in Effective String Theory
Siwei Zhong,
Stony Brook University,
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
The $\nu p$-Process in Supernovae: The Impact of Collective Neutrino Oscillations
Giuseppe Lucente,
SLAC,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Beyond a Single Slip Surface: The Role of the Fault-Zone Bulk in Earthquake Behavior
Mohamed Abdelmeguid,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Aerospace,
Lynn Booth & Kent Kresa Department of Aerospace,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Decoding the dynamics and regulation of endogenous transcription factor hubs
Shawn Yoshida,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Development of Strategies for Nickel-Catalyzed Asymmetric Reductive Cross-Couplings
Angel Hernandez-Mejias,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Reisman Group),
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium: Greenstein Lecture
Supermassive Black Holes in M87 and Beyond
Chung-Pei Ma,
Professor of Astronomy and Physics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Microbial Niches Govern N₂O Cycling in Marine Oxygen Minimum Zones
Daniel McCoy,
Postdoctoral Fellow, Biosphere Sciences & Engineering Global Ecology, Carnegie Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Tuning Order and Disorder in Itinerant Magnetic Systems: Case of Intercalated Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Talk and Forget: How AI Enclaves Enable Information Sharing
Tanya Rosenblat,
Professor of Information, School of Information and Professor of Economics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
From Electronics Skin to NeuroString
Zhenan Bao,
K. K. Lee Professor, Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and Professor, by courtesy, of Materials Science and Engineering, of Chemistry, and of Bioengineering,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wolff Memorial Lectures 2/3
The (almost) diagonal Ramsey numbers: Upper and lower bounds
Julian Sahasrabudhe,
Professor,
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS),
University of Cambridge,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, May 28th, 2026
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Electron Spin-based Quantum Sensing in Biomolecular Systems
Christian Totoiu,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Hadt Lab),
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Probability Seminar
Discrete random matrices, fluctuations of random groups, and an interacting particle system
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Number Field Counting via Multiple Dirichlet Series
Brandon Alberts,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
Eastern Michigan University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
A Topological Quantum Computer, Inside a Gauge Theory, Inside a Quantum Computer